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by magduf 7y ago
>Everything seemed so peaceful, sleepy, and warm, and the people so friendly. I'm guessing you aren't black... Those "peaceful" towns are now either full of old people because the young ones have moved away, or a bunc
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>Moissanite has a higher refractive index and higher 'fire' than a diamond. This makes the cachet that diamonds possess even more ridiculous. They're literally orders of magnitude more expensive, for something that's
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If I had a girlfriend like that, I'd be thinking pretty hard about how much I really want to marry her.
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Wow, that's crazy. But it does sound like something middle-class Americans would do; they love spending $100k on weddings these days.
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I guess this is another one of those weird things where China starting trying to be more like America. The other one is cars (and for some really strange reason, Buicks in particular are very popular there).
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I'm wondering if I should start talking about bad cops and calling them "bad oranges". But I don't think people will get it.
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We have an entire planet here; you don't have to go only to tourist hotspots. Of course, I'll admit there's many very boring places that probably aren't worth your time and money, like Oklahoma, and some very dangerou
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This diamond craze is mostly a US phenomenon. Japan is a distant #2, some parts of western Europe perhaps an even more distant #3, and the rest of the world doesn't even register.
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What a ridiculous thing to say. Given that diamond engagement rings are most valued in the US, the US's extremely low divorce rate proves how well this system works. Oh wait... (/s)
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>It is completely arbitrary and we have arbitrarily converged on a diamond as a mechanism to do this. This isn't quite true. 1) Who's "we"? Outside the US, no one really cares that much about diamonds. Outside the U
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No, it's different. For instance, gift-giving is a really big deal in Asian cultures. It's not about throwing lots of money around, it's just showing that you're thinking of someone, so gifts can be very small and inex
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This is a rather ignorant comment. Venice was built many centuries ago before they ever thought about things like long-term climate changes, soil subsistence (i.e., the city sinking over time), etc. And it was a very successful city preci
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I'm not sure about the US's national flood insurance, but for other things, it doesn't always enable stupidity. If there's private insurance companies involved, they usually won't insure abject stupidity. Even gov
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If you think the law is bad, then you should work with the government to get the law changed. Otherwise, you need to follow the law. At least, that's what the police will tell you when you break the law. So why should they get a pass
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This is exactly correct, and honestly it galls me every time I read it because it's like the entire society has somehow forgotten not only this saying in its entirety, but this very simple fact about apples. Do people not eat apples a
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>Now the real kicker - a friend of mine is in a relationship with a state trooper. I relayed this story to him and he flat out said he would have searched my car as well. You need a better friend.
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I do agree, but that's not what you wrote before. You wrote that "all humans should have the same protections against their rights being violated", which implies you think everyone should have the same rights. This clearly
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>And since it's trivial to change your appearance from Xian to whatever-ian Sorry, I don't buy this at all. It is not "trivial" to change your appearance to look like a totally different ethnic group. You seem to ha
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Not everyone gets the same rights. That's why we have the word "citizen", and why citizens get different legal status. One of those rights is the right to vote. Are you saying you think anyone should be able to vote in the
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Citation needed for the Linux one. People have been telling me for decades now that "there's viruses for Linux too!" but I've never seen any actual malware that actually affects desktop Linux. It's like the Yeti.
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>Here's a better idea: let's make censorship impossible in all forms. It seems like you're proposing government ownership or extremely heavy regulation of private businesses. For your ACLU/NRA case, you have a good ca
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It also doesn't work too well without Microsoft Windows.
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Having a favorite competitor is fine. Having so much loyalty to that competitor, however, is cultish. What happens when you get tired of that competitor, and some other competitor is offering something better? Or your favorite becomes ab
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>but AFAIK there is no standard alternative way to calculate those "losses" This isn't the problem at all. The problem is that they're calling them "losses", when they aren't losses at all. "Lose
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>However, should you be able to share your Netflix username and password with everyone on the block? Presumably, your Netflix subscription has limitations on how many people can simultaneously watch it. So, yes, you should be able to
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>> The pay-TV industry is projected to lose $6.6 billion in revenue from password sharing and piracy this year, according to Parks Associates. By 2024, the number could grow to $9 billion, the research firm said. >BULLSHIT, we hear
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>Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;) Cat videos are far more enjoyable to watch than the dreck that Hollywood is putting out these days.
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I guess you're a big fan of monopolies, huh?
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>Catapults accelerate aircraft to the point of generating enough lift for powered flight. Yes, but the reason they're used is because it's infeasible or too expensive to build an aircraft carrier long enough to have jets reliab
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>Also, it's not totally different in concept from an aircraft carrier's catapult; hopefully gentler... Nah. If someone can't handle a few g's in takeoff, maybe they shouldn't be flying, and should should stay ho

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